Selected Highlights

Recent Conference Presentations

• The Transport Properties in the Lower Mantle workshop, Yunishigawa-onsen, Japan, October 2008
• ThermoDynaMix II workshop: Building a community data base of thermodynamic parameters for mantle minerals, Barcelona, Spain, September 2008
• 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC), Oslo, Norway, August 2008
• 10th International Workshop on Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics, Carry-le-Rouet, France, September 2007
• International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly XXIV, Perugia, Italy, July 2007
• Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXVIII, League City, Texas, March 2007
• First Western Japan (Ehime-Hiroshima-Kyushu Universities) Joint Meeting on Earth's Deep Interior, Matsuyama, Japan, March 2007
• 69th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Zurich, August 2006
• 5th Biennial Workshop on Subduction Processes in the Japan-Kurile-Kamchatka-Aleutian Arcs (JKASP-5), Sapporo, Japan, July 2006
• Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, Chiba, Japan, May 2006
• Joint Meeting for Earth and Planetary Science, Chiba, Japan, May 2005
• SAL2005 International Workshop on Ocean Island Volcanism, Sal, Cape Verde, April 2005
• 9th International Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics, Erice, Italy, September 2005
• Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2005
• First Workshop on Deep Slabs and Mantle Dynamics, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan, January 2005
• 2004 Goldschmidt Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2004
• 8th European Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics, Zámek Hrubá Skála, Czech Republic, September 2003
• 2003 Goldschmidt Conference, Kurashiki, Japan, September 2003

Recent Invited Lectures

• School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE), Arizona State University, February 2007
• Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan, May 2006
• Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, May 2006
• School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, May 2005
• Geodynamics Research Centre, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, June 2005

Recent Visiting Positions

• Visiting Researcher, Geodynamics Research Centre, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, Feb-Mar 2007
• Visiting Researcher, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan, Apr-May 2006
• Visiting Professor, Geodynamics Research Centre, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, Apr-Jun 2005
• Visiting Researcher, Geodynamics Research Centre, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, Jan-Mar 2005

Recent Honors

• Elected Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America, 2003